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Mainframe
- Mainframe LPAR configuration
- Mainframe Architecture
- Mainframe Availability Management
- Mainframe Capacity and Performance Management
- Mainframe Cost Distribution
- Mainframe Cost Optimization
- Mainframe infrastructure specialist
- Mainframe infrastructure architect
- Mainframe Hardware Optimization
- Mainframe modernization
- Mainframe Outsourcer Advisory
- Mainframe Outsourcing Billing Models
- Technical project management
- Mainframe migration and upgrade measure (before, during and after analysis)
Mainframe software analysis and optimization
- Batch Analysis and Batch Windows Improvement
- Migration from SAS to WPS
- Migration from internal developed Capacity Management tools to ITBI
- Migration from MXG, SAS ITRM to ITBI
- Migration from CA MICS (MXG + SAS) to ITBI
- Migration from Tivoli Decision Support (TDS) to ITBI
- Migration from other Capacity Management tools to ITBI
- Software Optimization
- Software Version Optimization
- WLM Policies setup
Application Development
- Capacity considerations in software development/OpsDev
- Workload Offload
- Mainframe application modernization and offload
- Application optimization
- Application performance management
- Application performance tuning
- Capacity and Performance impact: before, under and after application changes
- Technical design and architecture (SOA, microservices, multi-platform)
CICS
- Health check of CICS environment
- CICS Technical setup and configuration
IMS
- IMS health check
- IMS Application Performance Tuning
MQ (Message Queuing)
- Volume and trend / MQ Trace (Queue) Analysis
- MQ health check
IT Finance
- Capacity and licenses baseline
- Budget, forecast and follow up on capacity and licenses
- IT cost showback/chargeback
Servers
- Distributed Capacity Planning and Server Consolidation
- Server Rightsizing
- Optimization
- Sourcing/Cloud considerations
- Cost Distribution
DB2
- DB2 Database Administration (DBA)
- DB2 Data Sharing and Parallel Sysplex Performance and tuning
- DB2 DSNZPARM review
- DB2 Health Check
- DB2 System Programming
- DB2 Application and System Tuning
Performance
- Performance Engineering
- Performance and Capacity Management
- Performance tuning
- Online Performance Analysis
- Storage Performance and Capacity Planning
- Measurements and baselining
Datacenter architecture
- Infrastructure Planning
- IT Infrastructure Optimization
- Optimization of Technical Application Architecture
- Project Management – Large development and large infrastructure projects, including Technology Roadmap development and Infrastructure Design
Procurement and contract management
- Outsourcing planning and readiness
- Evaluation of alternative outsourcing pricing models
- Journey to Cloud: baseline, planning and pricing models evaluation
- Software license optimization
WAS (Websphere)
- Volume and trend analysis of WAS
- WAS health check
- Problem Determination (root cause)
Storage
- Storage Performance and Capacity Planning
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